scholarly journals Foreign language education policy in Ireland: A discourse-historical analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Gasiorowska
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
The Body ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Language Education Policy ◽  
Contextual Change

This paper investigates the effects of contextual change on the body of education policy discourse in Ireland, and specifically on discourse pertaining to foreign language education. Discourse-Historical Analysis of key documents reveals a range of micro-, meso- and macro-environmental factors which have had a detrimental effect on foreign language policy discourse over the last twenty years. The objective of this study is to expose complex discursive strategies and tools which serve to convey the relationship between the micro-, meso- and macro-environmental factors and to investigate the effect of contextual change on the body of foreign language education policies. This will be achieved in two ways; firstly, by deconstructing the relevant documents in order to reveal how concepts, problems, causes, imperatives and inevitabilities are discursively framed; and secondly, by examining intertextual connections between texts which make up the discursive sample. It is anticipated that researchers and policymakers alike regardless of the capacity in which they deal with the body of foreign language education policy will find these findings of interest.

LANGUAGE POLICY AND PEDAGOGY: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF A. RONALD WALTON. Richard D. Lambert and Elana Shohamy (Eds.). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2000. Pp. xii + 279. $65.00 cloth.

2002 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-123
Author(s):  
Timothy Reagan
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Deputy Director ◽  
Language Policy And Planning ◽  
Language Education Policy ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Policy And Planning

Language policy and pedagogy, as its subtitle suggests, is dedicated to A. Ronald Walton, who died quite young in 1996. Walton had served as the deputy director of the National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) in Washington, D.C., since its founding in 1986, and the contributors to this volume all have had direct or indirect connections to the NFLC. Further, the essays in this volume are all related to issues and areas that were of concern to Walton during the course of his career. All of that having been said, this work is considerably more than a typical Festschrift; it is in fact a timely and important contribution to the growing literature dealing with both language policy and planning studies and contemporary issues in U.S. foreign language education policy and practice.

On Development History of Australia’s Language Policy and the Enlightenment to China’s Foreign Language Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ye Zhou ◽  
Li Zou
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Language Education Policy ◽  
Affecting Factors ◽  
Development History ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

As is well-known, Australia is the first English country to officially make and efficiently carry out multi-lingual and plural culture in the world, whose language education policy has been highly spoken of by most linguists and politicians in the world in terms of the formulation and implementation. By studying such items as affecting factors, development history, implementing strategies of Australian language education policy under the background of multiculturalism, researchers can get a clue of the law of development of the language education policy in the developed countries and even the world. To be specific, through studying the development history of Australian language education policy under the background of multiculturalism, the paper puts forward some enlightenment and presents some advice on the China’s foreign language education.

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